Some great stories in the New York Times lately. Pianist Geri Allen and filmmaker Carrie Mae Weems talk about working together, including a project which premiered on Friday. (The Daily News got to this too.) On an early jazz musician who has taken the task of emulating the past extremely seriously. The Jazz Museum in Harlem gets a little spotlight for its expansion plans, including a look at its associate artistic director, the 25-year-old pianist Jonathan Batiste. A documentary is being made about Frank Morgan, the saxophonist whose life story is the stuff of jazz myth. And if you wondered what a jazz festival in a community garden in Red Hook, Brooklyn looks like, now you know.

The Future of Music Coalition reports on the results from its "Money from Music" survey, with respect to jazz musicians. It's a long and detailed report but the front page offers a summary. We've mentioned this study a few times and now observations are out.

Interview with Steve Little. He was the drummer on Duke Ellington's ...And His Mother Called Him Bill, the Billy Strayhorn tribute. Jazz is only a small part of his life's work, though. From Do The Math.

An oral history of AUM Fidelity, a small but powerful record label dedicated to experimental and free jazz.

Dave Holland is profiled at jazzblog.ca. Check out the new all-star band he's got together.

Four veteran musicians, including Dave Liebman and Bobby Sanabria, talk about why they chose to live and work in New York City. Liebman and Sanabria are from the city, but trombonist Dave Gibson and pianist Dado Moroni are not.

A transatlantic connection between Boston's Russ Gershon (of Either/Orchestra) and Ethopian musicians has led to a bit of an Ethiojazz resurgence, reports (don't laugh) the United Airlines inflight magazine.

Kids On The Slope is an anime centered around Japanese high-school kids in the '60s. Since the central characters are jazz students, there's a lot of music involved. I pointed it out here but that was a pretty long article. More on this here.

The Subject Is Jazz, the television program hosted by Billy Taylor, has seen several episodes migrate to YouTube, courtesy of the Jazz Video Guy. Via.

The JazzWeek radio charts have returned after a three-month hiatus. (Too bad those months were when the Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding records came out it would have been interesting to see how those stacked up on jazz radio, no?)

Chick Webb, the drummer whose big band was a central organ of the Swing Era, is the subject of a new documentary. Via.

Congratulations to the makers of Grammar, a documentary about jazz today as seen through the recent work of Jason Moran. Their Kickstarter request was fulfilled. Have a look at the excerpt so far lots of great footage already.

Zan Stewart is known to some as the former long-time jazz writer of the Star-Ledger, of Newark, N.J. He's since moved across the country to Berkeley, Calif. and returned to playing the saxophone for people. Reminds me of this interview with Tom Moon.

Bill Cosby says goodbye to the Playboy Jazz Festival, which he's emceed for 30 years. Also, the festival itself is reviewed.

Dan Bejar, songwriter of the band Destroyer, talks about getting rejected by jazz festivals. (Destroyer is usually called an indie rock band; Bejar is from Canada, and the country is about to enter jazz festival season.)

"One cannot play a decent song ever, properly, on [the trumpet], and it has sprung up in the last few years like 'jaz' music, which is the nearest Hell, or the Devil, in music. It pollutes the art of Music."

JazzWax has posted much about the 2-CD Bill Evans Trio live recording which was recently unearthed, including an interview with drummer Marty Morell.